Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 58
Edidor then stood up and told the chiefs that Ekum had made her poison her husband, and that when she found his ju-jus were so powerful; she broke them, and gave half the poison Ekum had given her for her husband to him in his food, and that he had then died at once.
Who acts: Edidor, Ekum, that · What happens: stand up, tell, make, find, be, break · To what, where: chiefs, ju jus, people, poison, Edidor, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edidor, Ekum, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | obl |
| 10 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 poison | nmod:poss |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 powerful | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 powerful | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 powerful | nsubj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 found | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 that | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 jus | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jus | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ju | punct |
| 26 | jus | jus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 powerful | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 powerful | advmod |
| 29 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 broke | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 broke | nsubj |
| 32 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 broke | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gave | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gave | cc |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 37 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 39 poison | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 poison | det |
| 39 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 given | nsubj |
| 40 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 given | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 given | aux |
| 42 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 gave | ccomp |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 given | iobj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 husband | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 husband | nmod:poss |
| 46 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 given | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 husband | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 food | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 food | nmod:poss |
| 51 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 given | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 died | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 died | cc |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 died | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 died | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 died | aux |
| 57 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 58 died | advmod |
| 58 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 gave | conj |
| 59 | at | at | ADP | _ | 60 once | case |
| 60 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 58 died | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Edidor | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Edidor not said here | the chiefs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Ekum | the chiefs | Edidor's poison obj; Edidor's husband obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset poison=Beneficiary husband=Product | |||
| 4 | find | past | Edidor | Ekum's ju jus | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jus=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | break | past | Edidor | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 7 | give | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | give | past · perfect · passive | half poison | Edidor | Ekum's food | for Edidor's husband to Ekum; Ekum nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient she=Theme for husband=Asset | ||
| 9 | die | past · perfect | Ekum | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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